Group details

RDA’s Digital Practices in History and Ethnography Interest Group (DPHP-IG) works to advance data standards, practices and infrastructure for historical and ethnographic research, contributing to broader efforts in the digital humanities and social sciences.

Goals

- Advance development of digital infrastructure for historical and ethnographic research through engagement with concrete scholarly practice and projects (such as Open Folklore, the Nunaliit Atlas Framework, the Platform for Experimental and Collaborative Ethnography and Indiana University’s Mathers Museum of World Cultures).

- Advance conceptualization of the special characteristics and digital potential of humanities and qualitative social science data, including conceptualization of ethnographic and historical research data as “big data.”

- Advance capacity to share, integrate, visualize and act with different kinds of data and analyses, including qualitative data and the kinds of analyses produced through historical and ethnographic research.

Planned Outcomes & Benefits

- Build a global network of people involved in the development of data infrastructure for historical and ethnographic research, providing opportunities to share digital tools and project development experience. Monthly, call-in “project shares” since summer 2013 contribute to this.

- Link people involved in development of data infrastructure for historical and ethnographic research to data scientists and technologists, and to people in other research domains involved in data infrastructure development (leveraging the connections provided by RDA).

- Characterize and recommend best-practice meta-data standards for researcher-created primary data (field notes, recorded interviews, etc.) in history and ethnography. This will be the focus of the first Working Group spun out of this Interest Group.

- Characterize and recommend user agreements, citation practices, digital exhibition protocols, and other mechanisms that will facilitate sharing and public availability of historical and ethnographic data (recognizing the need to customize access according to data type and context).

- Develop an ethnographic project to document and analyze data practices and culture in different research communities, especially as represented in the RDA. The comparative knowledge created by the project can undergird deep research collaboration across diverse fields.

Who

Membership in the DPHG-IG includes historical and ethnographic researchers working in diverse fields and settings, including folklore, Arctic Studies, Ancient Studies, and Science and Technology Studies, in universities, museums, national labs, and corporate labs. Membership also includes librarians, software developers and data scientists interested in the humanities and qualitative social sciences, as well as advocates for open data and systems in these fields.

Recent Activity

Hello all,
I think it would be good for the field (and for the data) if more DH
papers focused on data. So I'm disseminating this call for contributions
to the first two issues of /Humanités numériques, /a new French journal
from Humanistica devoted to the use of the digital in the humanities and
social sciences.
Submissions are accepted until December 15, 2017. Read the full appeal
at http://www.humanisti.ca/revue-humanites-numeriques/
Best
Bridget

Hello
We've had a BOF proposal accepted for the Montreal Plenary to discuss
common services across the HASS sector. Find more detail here:https://www.rd-alliance.org/unlocking-australian-archives-rda-10th-plena...
We would like to find some people to present some cases on
services/solutions they have in place or use as defined in the BOF proposal
(or perhaps an update from any relevant IG/WG activity). Are you interested
in presenting a case?

Today, we will prepare for the upcoming plenary, discussing which panels may be of interest to the IG-DPHE and which conversations we would like to be involved in. We will provide an update on the Working Group for Metadata in the Empirical Humanities. We will also discuss upcoming project and issue shares. Click here for call-in instructions.

Reminder to please join us for a Project Share with Ian Johnson, Director of the Heurist Network at the University of Sydney. The call-in will be held on Thursday, October 6 at 8AM EST. Instructions for the call-in are listed below.

Apologies for the edit. Please join us for a Project Share with Ian Johnson, Director of the Heurist Network at the University of Sydney. The call-in will be held on Thursday, October 6 at 8AM EST. Instructions for the call-in are listed below.

Please join us for a Project Share with Ian Johnson, Director of the Heurist Network at the University of Sydney. The call-in will be held on Thursday, October 6 at 9AM EST (rescheduled from September 22 at the same time). Instructions for the call-in are listed below.

Please join us for a Project Share with Ian Johnson, Director of the Heurist Network at the University of Sydney. The call-in will be held on Thursday, September 22 at 9AM EST. Instructions for the call-in are listed below.